Self-help book launched for mining families

An online support service for miners and their families is launching a new resource aimed at helping people cope with the mining lifestyle.

Mining Family Matters says the book, Mining Families Rock, offers professional advice and practical strategies for dealing with isolation and fly-in, fly-out and drive-in, drive-out rosters.

The organisation's Alicia Ranford says the book features testimonials from mining families and tips for keeping relationships healthy and children happy.

Mrs Ranford says the resource is the world's first self-help book for mining families.

"It's professional advice from a psychologist on ... a lot of the bigger issues mining families can face and it also looks at the positives of the mining industry and being a family involved in it because it gets a lot of negative attention fly-in, fly-out, especially, and we want to look at the positives of the mining industry as well," she said.

Mrs Ranford says it is also aimed at Australians hoping to tap into the mining boom.

She says the feedback on the group's website indicates the resource is something mining families need.

"These families know they have made a choice to get into the industry and they want to make it work for them but up until the last two years since we launched there has been no information for them, so that's why we knew a self-help book was really needed," she said.

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